Medium needs to stop doing this, or people need to stop using Medium.
It's a website that hosts blogs.
That you read.
it doesn't need your Fooglebaceook account.
@natecull Actually I never understood why medium became so popular. Because sites like wordpress weren't cool enough anymore?
@ckeen maybe because it deliberately blurred the difference between 'Legitimate Journalism! tm we paid for' and 'some rando just put up a blog'?
So every blog on it suddenly looked exactly the same and all of them looked like Legitimate Journalism! tm and all of them came with a built-in halo of pricey fact-checked goodness even when they absolutely weren't.
which in itself is not a very nice or ethical thing to do when you think about it
@natecull Not at all.
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@ckeen @natecull I think it's a case "they made the UX pretty good for writers" - IIRC their rich editor is basically best in the industry
(also, it looked nice with omg typography)